photomicrograph

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a photograph made through a microscope so that a highly magnified subject can be recorded

   The photomicrograph revealed several chromosomes aligned across the middle of the cell.

2. 2
   verb

   to photograph a specimen through a microscope

   The laboratory will photomicrograph each tissue sample before staining it again.

Formed from photo- ("light" or "photography") + micrograph ("a magnified image or record"). The compound distinguishes an image photographed through a microscope from a photomacrograph, which records a subject at low magnification.

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